In this interview, Laurent de Sutter talks about the process of making books, the usual normative way of thinking about law that logically enforces the power of the legislators, judges and lawyers at the sacrifice of the little logistics and operations of law between people where the creativity really happens.
Professor Margaret Thornton discusses the value of a critical legal education and the impact of changing policies on the university.
The opening and closing music on the interviews was created and arranged by Rosanna Stevens, a writer, musician and doctoral candidate at the Australian National University. The piece incorporates field recordings I made while staying in Yuin Country on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia in a town otherwise known as Eden.
By what processes of logic does law exercise its operations? And how can art be a way of both revealing legal process and activating new imaginative futures for law which, in other words, is the political task of world-making?
The logo for the Law, Art and Politics podcast is based on a visual representation of Zeno’s paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise…
